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Striped Topaz SK SG Free
Proof? That will take some time.
Here is a comparison photo of a “Sunset” Lavender and Lavender possible het. Striped Opal that I took today. They are obviously extremely different. What is causing this? How do I prove what it is? I think that will be difficult! I guess that will depend on what I get when I breed a “Sunset” X “Sunset” or “Sunset” X Lavender het. “Sunset”, if it is going to work that way. That will be several years down the road. The Casper X Het breedings might produce a higher ratio of “Sunsets” The three corns that I have in my possession that are very different from a normal Lavender, “Casper“, “Sunset”, and “What the Hell” from this group of breeders are also different in appearance, but have a similar “Hypo type” look to them as a group. Have you ever lost a card off the top of one of your cages? Well, I do that now and then and Casper’s turned up missing. I don’t know who his mother was, so I am breeding him to the mothers of the other two suspects.
These “Sunsets” are coming from the same breeders as my Striped Lavenders, so your Striped Opal is not out of a “Sunset” Lavender, but a sibling to them or cousin. Consider the ratio of these “Sunsets” to the Striped Lavenders for example. I produced three of the “Sunset” type Lavenders and five Striped Lavenders/opals in 2003 out of 175 eggs. These odds suggest a double or triple homozygous snake.
I am actually not confident that the Casper breeding to the mothers of the “Sunset” and “What the Hell” will produce more “Sunsets”. Casper really has more of a hypo look to him. The “Sunsets” have a pink look to them, but if you look close around the blotches you can also see a “hypo” look there as well.
I am not making any claims as to what these “Sunsets” are yet, except that they look very different from a lavender and I have not seen them anywhere else except from Frey’s Lavenders. So far, nobody else has produce a photo of one, which I would like to see. I have seen a lot of Lavender Corns and they do vary, but not like this. I have some Lavenders that I bought from Rich Z that have a lot of pink on them, but other than the pink around the blotches they look like a lavender. There is definitely something different about these “Sunset” Lavenders, but your guess would be as good as mine at this point.
The Lavender Motley that I bought from Frey looks almost exactly like or has the same “Look” as the “Sunset” Lavender that I produced here except for the pattern of course. This suggest that the cause of this look has existed within the Lavender group, long before I got lavenders. Perhaps this “gene“, if that is what the cause of this look is, was carried by the female Lavender that I used to start this project, which came from Frey through Rainwater is the way the story goes. Some of the hets that I produced would also be carring this gene or combination of genes. Now that I am breeding them back together, this “gene” or combo of the Lavender gene and another are matching up.
Here is a comparison photo of a “Sunset” Lavender and Lavender possible het. Striped Opal that I took today. They are obviously extremely different. What is causing this? How do I prove what it is? I think that will be difficult! I guess that will depend on what I get when I breed a “Sunset” X “Sunset” or “Sunset” X Lavender het. “Sunset”, if it is going to work that way. That will be several years down the road. The Casper X Het breedings might produce a higher ratio of “Sunsets” The three corns that I have in my possession that are very different from a normal Lavender, “Casper“, “Sunset”, and “What the Hell” from this group of breeders are also different in appearance, but have a similar “Hypo type” look to them as a group. Have you ever lost a card off the top of one of your cages? Well, I do that now and then and Casper’s turned up missing. I don’t know who his mother was, so I am breeding him to the mothers of the other two suspects.
These “Sunsets” are coming from the same breeders as my Striped Lavenders, so your Striped Opal is not out of a “Sunset” Lavender, but a sibling to them or cousin. Consider the ratio of these “Sunsets” to the Striped Lavenders for example. I produced three of the “Sunset” type Lavenders and five Striped Lavenders/opals in 2003 out of 175 eggs. These odds suggest a double or triple homozygous snake.
I am actually not confident that the Casper breeding to the mothers of the “Sunset” and “What the Hell” will produce more “Sunsets”. Casper really has more of a hypo look to him. The “Sunsets” have a pink look to them, but if you look close around the blotches you can also see a “hypo” look there as well.
I am not making any claims as to what these “Sunsets” are yet, except that they look very different from a lavender and I have not seen them anywhere else except from Frey’s Lavenders. So far, nobody else has produce a photo of one, which I would like to see. I have seen a lot of Lavender Corns and they do vary, but not like this. I have some Lavenders that I bought from Rich Z that have a lot of pink on them, but other than the pink around the blotches they look like a lavender. There is definitely something different about these “Sunset” Lavenders, but your guess would be as good as mine at this point.
The Lavender Motley that I bought from Frey looks almost exactly like or has the same “Look” as the “Sunset” Lavender that I produced here except for the pattern of course. This suggest that the cause of this look has existed within the Lavender group, long before I got lavenders. Perhaps this “gene“, if that is what the cause of this look is, was carried by the female Lavender that I used to start this project, which came from Frey through Rainwater is the way the story goes. Some of the hets that I produced would also be carring this gene or combination of genes. Now that I am breeding them back together, this “gene” or combo of the Lavender gene and another are matching up.
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